Improvement in fabric for shirt-collars



CHARLES FELTON PIDGIN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Letters Patent No. 96,954, dated Nooember 16, 1869; antedated November 3, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN FABRIC FOR SHIRT-COLLARS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent making part of the same,

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES FELTON Prnem, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have inventeda new and improved Textile Fabric for the Manufacture of Collars, Cuffs, Bosoms, 820.; and I do hereby declare the same to be-fully described in this specification.

The object of my invention is to so treat a single thickness of a suitable textile fabric as to give it the necessary thickness and rigidity for the manufacture of collars, cuffs, bosoms, &o.

A piece of cloth, whether fine or coarse, when taken from the loom is too pliable, too yielding to pressure or moisture to be suitable for manufacture of class of goods mentioned.

Greater thickness in some goods, especially those of line thread, and greater stiffness in all fabrics of suitable weight, is found essential.

' The smooth laid surface of calendered cloth is unfavorable to the reception and retention of thickening and stiffening compounds; and, although inventors have presumed the idea of making collars, cuffs, bosoms, &c., from a single thickness of textile fabric to be a practicable one, none have, to my knowledge, reduced it to a practical form.

The difficulty has been in obtaining a woven material with a suitable surface and snflicient body to receive and retain the starching compounds, and this fact has necessitated the continued use of two or more thicknesses of textile fabric united by stitching, or a thickness of cloth and one of paper joined by pasting.

A rough surface, which will allow the complete incorporation with its texture of such thickening and stiffening compounds as are used, I deem is requisite,

and this surface can be secured by subjecting a woven fabric to the process known as hatchelling or napping.

By the use of such a prepared fabric as a basis, I.

can produce a material which will possess the strength and appearance of linen, and the firmness and cheapness of paper goods.

To make this real-cloth fabric, I may use, in connection with the napped surface, ground cotton fibres, diminutive wads of cotton-batting or flock, or layers of sheet-wadding.

\Vhen the ground cotton pulp, the wads of batting, or the layers of wadding, are brought in contact with the floccose surface of the fabric used, the fibres of the two substances coalesce, forming a perfectly united texture, while the mucilaginous substances incorporated with the same, by the proper application of pressing and drying-rollers, thoroughly impregnate the mass, and we thus obtain a single-thickness textile fabric of the desired firmness, weight, density, and thickness.

One or both sides of the original fabric may be operated upon in these ways, and on either or both, by processes known and common to the art I can produce a. suitable glaze or finish; v

What I claim as new, and my inventio to secure by Letters Patent, is As a new and improved materialfor the manufacture of collars, cuffs, bosolns, &c., the textile fabric of single thickness, substantially as herein described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\Vitnesses: CHAS. FELTON PIDGIN.

CARROLL D. WRIGHT, ALEX. N. REDMAN.

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